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Another donor quits Bangladesh ...
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 4 months ago
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A Japanese aid agency has withdrawn its offer to lend Bangladesh $430m to help build the country's biggest bridge after the project was dogged by allegations of corruption. The move came as Bangladesh withdrew its request for $1.2bn in World Bank
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WB names Padma review panel head
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 8 months ago
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The former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will lead a review of Bangladesh's investigation of alleged corruption tied to a major bridge project, the World Bank said late on Friday. Luis Moreno Ocampo will head the three-member
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Thanks to border fencing, business booms in Tripura
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 8 months ago
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Goods from neighbouring Bangladesh move freely in and out of State; trade and security are going hand in hand The sight of Bangladeshi trucks laden with cement, stones, plastic and other items entering Tripura through the Akhaura border near here
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Cheaper Padma bridge 'if needed'
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 8 months ago
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Dhaka, Sept 12 (bdnews24.com)The government is intent on building the Padma bridge even if it means to scale down the design and let only cars use it, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Parliament on Wednesday. She said there were two options for the
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UP chief, 2 others shot dead in Kushtia
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 9 months ago
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Kushtia, Aug 28 (bdnews24.com) Unidentified criminals shot dead three people, including Ambaria Union Parishad Chairman Nurul Islam, at Khoksa in Kushtia on Tuesday. Assistant Sub-Inspector at the Khoksa Police Station Atiq confirmed the incident to
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NBR weighing Padma bridge surcharge
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 10 months ago
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Dhaka, Jul 25 (bdnews24.com)The National Board of Revenue on Wednesday said they were considering ways to levy 'surcharge' building Padma bridge with own funds. Chariman Nasiruddin Ahmed said the Cabinet at a meeting on Jul 9 decided to pull together
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Bridge div secy seeks leave for fair Padma probe
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 10 months ago
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In his application submitted to the Cabinet Division on Sunday, Mosharraf sought leave for an indefinite period from July 25. I submitted my application for leave but I didnt receive any official order in this regard yet, Mosharraf told The Daily
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Crime round-up: 4 arrested for robbing commuters near Ghatkoper station
Hyderabad :: India | 10 months ago
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The Kurla government railway police personnel on Friday arrested a gang of four robbers for robbing valuables such as cash and mobile phones of commuters walking on railway tracks during the night near Ghatkopar station, in order to buy charas for
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WB's China firm view not ill-motivated: ACC
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 10 months ago
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The World Bank recommendation to re-evaluate the Chinese company as Padma bridge project's consultant did not seem to be ill-motivated, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chief Golam Rahman has said. "The World Bank did not say that they (Chinese
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Bangladesh weighs options after World Banks pulls out of Padma bridge project
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 10 months ago
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A four-mile bridge across the Padma river was aimed at linking poor areas in the south-west with Dhaka. Photograph: Joerg Boethling/Alamy If the World Bank's cancellation of a $1.2bn loan to build Bangladesh's longest bridge was intended to prompt
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